Chapter 173 Unaware of Father's Death
He inevitably chatted with the villagers he met on the way, so Zhou Zhenxing was delayed for quite a while before getting home.
When they arrived at their alley, Liu Guizhi had already received the news and was excitedly standing at the gate, looking around and waiting.
"mom!"
Zhou Zhenxing quickened his pace upon seeing Liu Guizhi.
When Liu Guizhi saw her son, tears immediately streamed down her face.
"My son, you're finally back! Why did it take you so long to come back!"
Liu Guizhi hugged Zhou Zhenxing tightly, crying her heart out.
Zhou Zhenxing knew he had indeed done wrong in the past two years and felt extremely guilty. Now, all he could do was apologize.
"Mom, I'm sorry, it's all because your son is unfilial!"
Liu Guizhi continued to cry her heart out, but Zhou Zhenxing was worried that her health would suffer if she kept crying like this, so he tried his best to calm her down.
It took more than ten minutes before Liu Guizhi finally stopped crying and took Zhou Zhenxing's hand to walk into the house.
Having not been home for over two years, the house looked even more dilapidated and desolate.
After Zhou Zhenxing entered the house, he found that the temperature inside was not much different from that outside.
How could their bodies withstand such freezing weather?
He put his luggage in the west room where he and Su Jin had lived before, and then prepared to burn firewood to start a fire.
"Zhenxing, why did you come back alone?"
Once she recovered, Liu Guizhi immediately pressed for answers.
"Xiao Jin, have you found you?"
These days she can't eat or sleep well at home.
Every time I close my eyes, I dream that my son and daughter-in-law's marriage has broken down, and I feel even more depressed after waking up.
Zhou Zhenxing was somewhat afraid to look her in the eye.
He was well aware of how much his parents valued his marriage to Su Jin.
"The road is too far, she didn't come back with me."
I was thinking of telling them about the divorce later.
Liu Guizhi asked with a worried look, "Are you all alright?"
Zhou Zhenxing's expression was stiff, but seeing his mother's nervous eyes, he couldn't help but nod.
"Um."
Liu Guizhi finally breathed a long sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good."
Zhou Zhenxing changed the subject, saying, "It's so cold at home, you'll get cold. I'll go start a fire."
"I'm used to it, and we've run out of firewood at home."
As Liu Guizhi spoke, her nose began to sting with tears again.
She was the only one left in the house, and her health was failing; she didn't even have the strength to chop firewood.
Zhou Zhenxing looked toward the pile of firewood in the yard, and sure enough, it was empty.
"Then I'll go chop some wood first."
As he spoke, he searched for the machete in his house, and then asked another question.
Where did my dad go? When will he be back?
It's cold now, and the end of the year is approaching, so there shouldn't be much work to do at the production team, which is why he asked that question.
Liu Guizhi was startled and stared at him intently, her expression clearly changed.
At first, Zhou Zhenxing's attention was focused on the machete, but after a few seconds he realized that something was wrong.
He turned to look at Liu Guizhi, who was motionless and staring in astonishment.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Liu Guizhi's breathing quickened, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Zhenxing, don't you know your father has already... has already..."
Zhou Zhenxing was puzzled, but seeing his mother's current expression, he realized something, and his heart skipped a beat, a sense of foreboding welling up inside him.
What happened to my dad?
Liu Guizhi cried again, and this time she cried even more bitterly and aggrievedly than before.
“Your father is dead! Your father died three months ago! We sent you a telegram, but you didn’t come back in time! Your father didn’t even get to see you one last time…”
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